I'd like to meet:
People who think for themselves. Positive creative people of all kinds: writers, designers, photographers, musicians, actors, actresses... Web developers with web standards in mind, people with interest in UI and SEO principles... CSS and presentation layer developers, flash developers, Action Script 3 developers.
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Music:
Alpha Blondy, Beres Hammond, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Buju Banton, Marcia Griffiths, Barrington Levy, Dezarie, Nasio Fontaine, TOK, The Roots, Common, Talib Kweli, Eric B. & Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, Erykah Badu, Run DMC, LL Cool J, Sade, The Chi-lites, The Delfonics, Smokey Robinson, Al Green, The O'Jays, Otis Redding, Sheryl Crow, The Cure, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse,The Raconteurs, Blue October, Miles Davis, Jack Teagarden, classical, some opera, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Pachelbel, Mozart.
Movies:
True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Fight Club, Goodfellas, Trainspotting, Pi, City of God, The Usual Suspects, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Star Wars, Do the Right Thing, Waking Life, Schindler's List, Raging Bull, Dogma, Adaptation, King of New York, The Vanishing (Dutch Version!), Sling Blade, Shawshank Redemption, The Big Lebowski, American History X, Man Bites Dog, Half Baked, Friday, Tommy Boy, Austin Powers (the first one).
Television:
I don't watch much TV but... The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Documentaries of all kinds; especially Ken Burns. The man may have a terrible haircut, but makes amazing documentaries.
Books:
I love to read and devour anything and everything I can. Various Works of: Jung, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Joseph Campbell, T. S. Eliot, George Orwell, Ayn Rand, WEB DuBois, Lao Tzu, I love reading the great classics of the world including: Greek mythology, The Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads, Reading Creation Stories of any and every culture is a passion of mine. And some specific favorites: 1984, Animal Farm, Anthem, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Power of Myth, A People's History of the United States, Candide, The Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Great Gatsby, Koontz, Clancy, King, The Stand, Needfull Things, The Bachman Books. Red Storm Rising was the first book that really hooked me... best book ever read? The Autobiography of Malcom X.